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Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 24 (37L)

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 7, 1976, 1:05 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Meteor-1 series was the first series of Soviet meteorological satellites.

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Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 31

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
April 6, 1976, 4:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Tselina-O (11F616) was one component of two-satellite Tselina ELINT satellite system. Tselina-O provided general ELINT surveillance to be examined in detail by the larger Tselina-D satellites.

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Soyuz 11A511M | Zenit-4MT 10

Energia | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 31, 1976, 12:50 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Film-return reconnaissance satellite

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Delta 3914 | Satcom 2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 26, 1976, 10:47 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First generation geostationary communication satellite built for RCA Americom

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Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 57

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 26, 1976, 3 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

High resolution optical reconnaissance satellite of the Vostok-based Zenit family.

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Titan 24B | KH-8 46

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
March 22, 1976, 6:14 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

KH-8 Block 3 high resolution reconnaissance satellite.

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Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 34

Russian Space Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 19, 1976, 7:31 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Military communications satellite in a highly elliptic orbit

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Soyuz U | Zenit-2M 65

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 18, 1976, 9:15 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-2M (Gektor, 11F690) was an improved version of the Zenit-2 area surveillance reconnaissance satellite. It was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

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Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 9

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
March 16, 1976, 5:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Tselina-D satellites provided detailed observation of radio sources detected by the smaller Tselina-O satellites as part of the Tselina ELINT system.

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Titan IIIC | LES 8, 9 & Solrad 11A, 11B

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
March 15, 1976, 1:25 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

LES 8 and 9 were experimental nuclear-powered geostationary communications satellites. Solrad 11A and 11B were scientific satellites designed to monitor the solar X-ray, UV and energetic particle emissions.

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